The Great Depression Review

What was the "New Deal" of the 1930s?

• a government program that gave free land to homesteaders

• a government program that helped women get the vote

• a government program that spread civil rights throughout the country

• a government program designed to help people during the depression

President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress to pass a series of acts called the New Deal. Which is one way the New Deal helped people during the Great Depression?

• It gave all people the right to vote. 
• It created programs to put people back to work.    
• It let all new immigrants become American citizens. 
• It let people travel around the country freely. 

The Great Depression was an economic slowdown in the 1920s and 1930s. Which of the following was one cause of the Great Depression in the United States?

• the end of the gold rush 
• the crash of the stock exchange 
• the ending of World War II 
• the high price of oil 

Many people lost their jobs during the Great Depression. People did not have money to pay for necessities, such as shelter, food, and clothing. The national government responded with President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal," a program that

• provided programs to help people make money to provide for their needs. 
• provided new ways for people to apply for unemployment insurance. 
• forced people to join the military forces to make money for their needs. 
• forced people to use charities to help them provide for their needs. 

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

When people went to the bank to withdraw their money and the banks had no money was known as the 

• Bank Crisis 
• Black Tuesday
• Stock Market Crash
• New Deal 

The President who was mostly blamed for worsening the Great Depression 

• Roosevelt 
• Eisenhower
• Hoover
• Jefferson

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The Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA) helped farmers get crop prices under control. This is an example of:

• Relief
• Recovery
• Reform 

This new deal program helped with the recovery process by hiring the unemployed to work on outdoor projects such as deforestation 

• PWA
• CCC
• AAA
• FDIC

This new deal programs helps to ensure retirement funds for all americans and helps those in need of immediate monetary assistance

• FDIC

• SSA

• AAA

• CCC